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ina’s  Awful  Famine 


15  Million  Lives  in  Jeopardy 


A HAPPY  GROUP  OF  CHINESE  GIRLS  BEFORE  THE  FAMINE 

A girls'  class  listening  to  a native  teacher?  Among  the  number  ^ ** 
is  a little  Amertcan  girl,  the  child  of  a much  beloved  mission^y  .. 

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Send  all  Contributions  for  the  Famine  Sufferers  to 

China  Famine  Relief  Work 

' THE  CHRISTIAN  HERALD 

91  TO  115  BIBLE  HOUSE,  NEW  YORK  CITY 


lUay  God  Bless  the  Givers,  and  multiply  the  Gifts 


"Blessed  is  he  that  considereth  the  poor." 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


A Happy  Group  of  Chinese  Girls  Before  the  Famine  . 

A Message  to  You 3 

Killing  the  Aged  and  the  Children  ....  3 
Boys  Sell  at  $2.00;  Girls  at  $3.00  ....  4 

What  Thou  Doest,  Do  Quickly 4 

Shall  These  Little  Lambs  Perish  ? ....  5 

Calisthenics  at  the  South  Gate  Presbyterian  School  . 5 

The  Worst  Famine  in  Forty  Years  ....  6 

Canal  that  Overflowed,  Submerging  40,000  Sq.  Miles  . 6 

President  Roosevelt  Appeals 7 

President  Roosevelt  Contributes 7 

Our  Duty  and  Our  Resolve 8 

A Native  Bible  Woman  ......  8 

God’s  Promises  Fulfilled 9 

Another  Testing  Time 9 

Scholars  at  the  Isabel  Hart  Girls’  School  (Methodist)  . 10 
Little  Children  Moaning  for  Food  . . . .11 

Homan  Flesh  Sold  for  Food 11 

Alive  in  Her  Dead  Mother’s  Arms  ...  . .11 
A Chinese  ^‘Freight  Train”  Resting  at  a Station  . 12 
A Chinese  Automobile  . . . . . .12 

Help  Them  to  Help  Others  ......  13 

They  Are  Looking  This  Way 13 

Let  us  Help  Them  Quickly ......  13 

A Little  Girl’s  Appeal  for  China 14 

Christian  Refugees  at  the  Apostolic  Mission  . .14 

Give  Us  Bread  or  We  Perish 15 

The  Daughters  of  the  King  ......  15 

Chinese  Minister  Thanks  Our  People  . . . .16 

How  Many  Lives  Will  YOU  Save  . . . .16 


Every  Contribution,  however  small,  for  the  Famine  Sufferers  in 
China,  will  be  first  acknowledged  in  the  columns  of  The  Christian 
Herald,  and  later  on  in  Heaven  by  Him  who  will  say:  “Inasmuch 
as  ye  have  done  it  unto  these  ye  have  done  it  unto  me.” 


This  pamphlet  may  be  had  FREE  in 
large  or  small  quantities  by  applying  to 


The  Christian  Herald,  91-115  Bible  Honse,  New  York 

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A Message  to  You 

Unless  America,  the  land  of  unparalleled  prosperity, 
speedily  sends  relief  to  the  starving  millions  of  China, 
the  most  frightful  tragedy  of  the 
twentieth  century  will  be  en- 
acted, and  millions  of  helpless 
human  beings  will  perish  for  the 
want  of  a crust  of  bread. 

The  calamity  that  has  befallen 
these  peaceful,  industrious  peo- 
ple is  not  of  their  own  creation. 
Rain  fell,  as  in  the  days  of  Noah, 
for  forty  days  without  a break, 
the  waters  overflowed  a hun- 
dred miles  to  the  east  and  a 
hundred  miles  to  the  west,  a hun- 
dred miles  to  the  north  and  a 
hundred  miles  to  the  south,  sub- 
merging farms,  destroying  crops, 
uprooting  houses,  and  leaving 
despair,  destruction  and  star- 
vation in  their  track. 

Thus  forty  thousand  square  miles 
were  compelled  to  stand  the  un- 
usual strain,  and  fifteen  millions 
of  people  became  impoverished. 

Killing  the  Aged  and  the  Children 

So  intense  is  the  suffering  now  that  parents  kill  their 
children  by  throwing  them  in  the  rivers,  or  administering 
poison,  and  after  this  desperate  act  take  their  own  lives. 

The  aged  people  are  being  drowned  to  prevent  their 
death  by  the  agonies  of  starvation.  Everywhere 
throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  afflicted  dis- 
trict people  are  dying  in  the  fields,  on  the  roads,  and 
in  the  streets,  literally  falling  in  their  tracks  a prey  to 
the  cruel  and  relentless  monster 
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Pleue  Give  Me  a Few  Graloi 
of  Rice 


Boys  Sell  at  $2.00;  Girls  at  $3.00 

One  of  the  most  pitiful  phases  is  the  uncontrollable 
grief  of  parents,  who,  in  sheer  desperation,  sell  their 
children  for  a mere  pittance,  and  then,  when  they 
realize  what  they  have  done,  like  Rachel  of  old,  re- 
fuse to  be  comforted,  pleading  with  the  purchaser  for 
the  restoration  of  their  children,  offering  themselves 
to  undergo  servitude  that  their  darlings  might  be  set  at 
liberty.  Girls  are  selling  for  three  dollars  and  boys  for 
two  dollars,  Mexican,  which  means  half  that  amount  in 
American  money. 

Such  is  the  story  of  the  greatest  tragedy  of  the 
present  century  now  being  enacted  in  far-off  China, 
and  it  is  in  behalf  of  these  millions  that  this  urgent  ap- 
peal is  issued,  and  with  it  goes  an  earnest,  heartfelt 
prayer  that  God  may  grac'ously  move  the  hearts  of  our 
people  to  liberally  and  promptly  respond  to  the  appeal 
of  these  helpless  victims. 

Let  every  minister  of  the  Gospel,  every  Sunday 
School  Superintendent,  every  Young  People’s  Society 
(whether  Christian  Endeavor,  Epworth  League,  Young 
People’s  Union,  or  Y.  M.  C.  A.),  every  generous  man 
and  ever}’’  tender-hearted  and  sympathetic  woman 
throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  this  land  be  true 
to  Him  whose  life  on  earth  was  a ministry  of  helpful- 
ness to  the  downtrodden,  the  unfortunate  and  the 
desolate;  true  to  themselves  and  true  to  humanity,  and 
lend  a hand  in  this  great  work  of  throwing  out  the  life- 
line to  the  millions  of  aged  men,  defenseless  women  and 
innocent  children  of  China,  thus  effectually  answering 
their  pitiful  prayer  of  absolute  helplessness. 

“What  Thou  Doest,  Do  Quickly” 


“Soon  will  the  season  of  rescue  be  o’er; 

Soon  will  they  drift  to  Eternity’s  shore: 

Haste,  then,  my  brother;  no  time  for  delay. 

But  throw  out  the  life-line  and  save  them  to-day.” 


Address  all  remittances  for  the  relief  of  starving  China  to 

THE  CHINA  FAMINE  RELIEF  FUND 

Care  of  THE  CHRISTIAN  HERALD, 

91  to  115  Bible  House,  - New  York  City 

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CAUSTHENICS  AT  THE  SOUTH  GATE  PRESBYTERIAN  SCHOOL 

The  children  are  neat  and  tidy  and  from  refined  homes.  The  famine 
affects  both  rich  and  poor,  as  the  floods  have  swept  away  their  everytlimg. 

Shall  These  Little  Lambs  Perish? 

Dr.  J.  Sumner  Stone,  the  well-known  pastor  of  a 
Methodist  church  in  New  York  City,  and  now  travel- 
ing in  China,  writes  The  Christiast  Heeald  as  follows: 

“Fifteen  million  people  are  already  in  the  grasp  of 
famine.  Seven  millions  are  now  helpless.  They  are 
living  on  a gruel  made  of  beans  and  sweet  potato 
leaves.  Even  this  will  soon  be  gone.  Already  the 
people  are  drowning  or  giving  opium  to  their  aged 
relatives  and  their  children,  and  selling  their  little  girls 
into  nameless  slavery.  Our  missionaries  are  trying  to 
save  where  they  can;  but  what  can  they  do  when 
millions  are  hungry  and  crying  for  bread  at  their  doors? 
I love  children  too  much  to  see  them  exposed  to  hunger 
or  shame  without  crying  loudly  to  their  friends  to 
come  to  their  help.  It  is  not  the  will  of  our  heavenly 
Father  that  one  of  these  little  ones  should  perish. 

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The  Worst  Famine  in  Forty  Years 

Some  of  the  accounts  that  reach  us  from  Shanghai, 
tell  of  awful  misery  and  suffering,  which,  were  it  not 
for  the  authoritative  source  whence  they  hail,  would  seem 
almost  incredible. 

The  Viceroy  of  one  of  the  afflicted  provinces  states 
that  the  famine  is  “ten  times  worse  than  any  known  in 
the  last  forty  years.”  He  tells  of  a family  consisting 
of  husband,  wife  and  two  children.  The  mother  went 
foraging  for  food,  and  during  her  absence  the  father 
threw  the  children  into  the  river  and  drowned  them. 
On  her  return  the  mother  asked  for  her  children,  and 


THE  CANAL  THAT  OVERFLOWED,  SUBMERGING  40,000  SQUARE  MILES 


was  told  that  the  father  could  not  bear  to  see  them 
gradually  starving  to  death,  and  as  there  was  no 
chance  of  feeding  them,  he  made  away  with  them. 
'J'he  mother,  greatly  distressed,  flung  herself  into  the 
river,  following  her  children.  The  head  of  the  family, 
in  utter  despair  at  the  loss  of  his  all,  took  his  life  also. 
The  whole  family  thus  perished. 

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President  Roosevelt  Apyeals 

President  Roosevelt  has  expressed,  by  official 
proclamation,  the  profound  sympathy  of  this  coun- 
try for  the  15,000,000  famine  suflFerers  in  China, 
and  has  invited  the  American  people  to  contribute 
a fund  to  be  applied  to  relief  work.  The  procla- 
mation says: 

“There  is  an  appalling  famine  in  China.  Through- 
out a district  covering  over  40,000  square  miles, 
and  supporting  a population  of  15,000,000,  the 
crops  have  been  destroyed  by  floods,  and  millions 
of  people  are  on  the  verge  of  starvation;  thou- 
sands of  dwellings  have  been  destroyed  and  their 
inmates  are  without  homes.  An  urgent  appeal  has 
been  made  for  the  assistance  of  the  United  States. 

“Our  people  have  often,  under  similar  conditions 
of  distress  in  other  countries,  responded  generously 
to  such  appeals.  Amid  our  abounding  prosperity, 
assuredly  we  should  do  our  part  to  aid  the  unfor- 
tunate and  relieve  the  distressed  among  the  people 
of  China,  to  whom  we  have  been  allied  for  so 
many  years  in  friendship  and  kindness.” 


President  Roosevelt  Contributes 

DEPARTMENT  OF  STATE 
WASHINGTON 
Dear  Doctor  Klopsch: 

The  President  has  asked  me  to  say  to  you 
that  he  is  much  interested  in  your  work  to 
raise  funds  for  the  sufferers  by  the  present 
dreadful  famine  in  China.  He  hopes  that  you 
will  meet  with  the  same  success  that  you  have 
had  in  similar  appeals  to  the  humanity  and 
liberality  of  our  people. 

As  a contribution  to  the  fund  he  has  handed 
me  his  check  for  $100,  which  1 enclose,  to- 
gether with  a similar  check  of  my  own.  With 
best  wishes,  I am. 

Very  sincerely  yours. 

Dr.  Louis  Klopsch,  ELIHU  ROOT. 

The  Christian  Herald,  New  York  City. 


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Our  Duty  and  Our  Resolve 


These  people,  though  their  skin  be  yellow,  though 
their  customs  be  strange,  though  they  live  in  a different 
clime,  though  at  times  they  have  erred,  and  grievously 
erred,  yet  are  they  our  brethren,  and  we  will  not  desert 
them  in  this  hour  of  terrible  affliction  and  distress. 

They  shall  not  die  if  we  can  prevent  it.  Their  chil- 
dren shall  not  be  sold  for  food,  for  to  them  they  are  as 


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A NATIVE  BIBLE  WOMAN 


These  consecrated  women  are  a great  help  to  the  overworked  mission- 
aries in  foreign  fields,  and  a great  influence  for  good  among  the  natives. 

dear  as  our  own  prattling  babes  are  to  us;  they  shall 
not  starve,  seeing  that  God  has  given  us  enough  and  to 
spare.  Out  of  our  abundance  we  will  assist  them,  and 
God  helping  us,  we  will  do  to  them  as  we  would,  under 
similar  conditions,  have  them  do  to  us,  and  thus  reduc- 
ing the  Golden  Rule  to  practice,  we  will  give  them 
bread  to  the  full  extent  of  our  individual  ability. 

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God’s  Promises  Fulfilled 

Ten  years  ago  we  gave  liberally  to  India,  then  to 
Cuba,  then  to  Port*?  Rico,  then  to  China,  then  to  Bin- 
land,  and  last  year  to  Japan. 

True  to  the  promise  contained  in  his  precious  Word, 
For  this  thing  the  Lord  thy  God  shall  bless  thee  in  all  thy 
works,  and  in  all  that  thou  puttest  thine  band  unto  (Dent.  15 : 10). 
God  has  graciously  blessed  and  prospered  our  beloved 
land  to  an  absolutely  unprecedented  degree.  Wealth 
has  been  poured  into  our  lap,  factories  have  been 
re-opened,  looms  silent  for  years  have  again  been  set  to 
work.  The  railroads  of  the  land,  notwithstanding  their 
largely  increased  facilities,  have  been  tested  to  their 
utmost  capacity  by  crops  unparalleled  in  the  world’s 
history,  and  the  Government  reports  indicate  a coming 
crop  exceeding  in  quantity  and  richness  any  yet 
harvested. 

Business  all  over  the  country  has  revived  to  an 
amazing  degree,  and  work  has  become  more  plentiful 
and  more  profitable  than  ever.  No  epidemic  or  plague 
has  been  permitted  to  gather  its  victims  from  among 
our  loved  ones,  and,  basking  in  the  sunshine  of  Provi- 
dence, we  enjoy  a full  measure  of  happiness,  health, 
prosperity,  and  of  God’s  favor.  Thus  does  our  Heavenly 
Father  fulfill  his  promises  to  his  believing  children,  and 
his  Word  is  as  good  to-day  as  it  was  yesterday,  and  it 
will  remain  so  forever. 

Another  Testing  Time 

And  now  has  come  another  testing  time.  Once 
again,  a portion  of  God’s  footstool  is  sorely  afflicted. 
Once  again,  a hungry,  starving,  suffering  people  raise 
toward  us  their  attenuated  hands  in  earnest  supplica- 
tion, and  unite  their  voices  in  a concerted  plea  for  help. 
Shall  we  turn  aside  and  refuse  to  answer?  Shall  we 
say  to  them,  “Your  people  did  thus  and  so,  and  you 
must  not  expect  anything  from  us?”  No,  indeed! 
Unworthy  would  be  such  a course  for  those  who  profess 
to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  the  lowly  Nazarene  who 
went  about  doing  good  to  friend  and  foe  alike,  who 
even  laid  down  his  life  for  his  enemies,  and  whose 
sacred  lips  gave  utterance  to  these  words: 

Love  ye  your  enemies,  and  do  good,  and  lend,  hoping  for 
nothing  again;  and  your  reward  shall  be  great,  and  ye  shall  be 
the  children  of  the  Highest : for  he  is  kind  unto  the  unthankful 
and  to  the  evil  (Luke  6 : 35). 


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SCHOLARS  AT  THE  ISABEL  HART  GIRLS’  SCHOOL,  METHODIST,  PHOTOGRAPHED  LAST  YEAR 


Little  Children  Moaning  For  Food 

Rev.  Dr.  T.  F.  McCrea,  Treasurer  of  the  Missionary 
Relief  Committee,  writes: 

“Leaves  and  coarse  mill  feed,  ordinarily  given  only 
to  hogs,  now  sell  for  as  much  as  good  food  usually 
costs.  Trade  is  paralyzed.  People  are  homeless,  list- 
less, hopeless.  Furniture  and  clothing — what  little  was 
saved  from  the  cruel  flood — are  sacrificed  and  the  pov- 
erty-stricken parents  hear  the  hungry  children  cry  and 
moan  in  the  night,  while  they  themselves  crouch  help- 
lessly cn  a damp  mat  in  some  remote  corner. 

“I  think  of  that  day  when  Christ  fed  the  hungry  five 
thousand,  and  I wonder  if  Christ’s  people  will  follow 
in  his  footsteps,  and  have  compassion  on  these  hungry 
thousands  in  China,  who  must  perish  with  cold  and 
hunger  unless  we  help  them. 

“Your  cablegram  received  last  night.  We  are  greatly 
rejoiced  that  The  Christian  Herald  is  at  work  for 
us  in  the  homeland.  This  inspires  hope.” 

Human  Flesh  Sold  for  Food 

A correspondent  of  the  Echo  says: 

In  two  districts,  Sinchow  and  Paichow,  starving  and 
desperate  people  are  eating  their  children,  all  the 
plants,  grasses  and  roots  having  been  exhausted.  This 
correspondent  adds  that  there  have  been  many  cases 
of  cannibalism.  Human  flesh  was  being  sold  for  food, 
although  the  ghoulish  traffic  was  conducted  secretly. 

Alive  in  Her  Dead  Mother’s  Arms 


A correspondent  of  the  Shanghai  Mercury,  after  vis- 
iting the  famine  district,  writes: 

Your  correspondent  saw  the  famine  here  in  ’98,  and 
it  was  awful.  He  has  often  said  since  that  he  hoped 
he  would  never  have  to  see  another,  but  all  agree  that 
it  is  going  to  be  worse  this  time  than  it  was  then. 
Many  here  are  sick  from  what  they  are  eating,  and  the 
color  of  the  skin  is  already  noticably  darkening. 

A woman  was  traveling  with  her  baby  girl  a year 
old.  Weakened  by  her  long  journey  and  lack  of  food, 
she  fell  an  easy  prey  to  the  fever  and  died  by  the  side 
of  the  road,  clasping  tightly  her  little  child.  For  two 
days  the  little  living  child  was  left  in  its  dead  mother’s 
arms.  Who  on  that  road,  with  hunger  and  fever  relent- 
lessly driving  them  on,  could  stop  to  heed  even  the  cry 
of  a helpless  baby  ? 


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A CHINESE  "FREIGHT  TRAIN”  RESTING  AT  A STATION 


A CHINESE  AUTOMOBILE 

The  Conveyance  in  Vogue  Among  the  Better  Classes 

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Help  Them  to  Help  Others 

Missionaries  now  working  in  China  have  been  so 
affected  by  the  scenes  of  heartrending  suffering  which 
they  have  been  compelled  to  witness  that,  though  their 
hearts  are  breaking,  their  tears  refuse  to  flow. 

They  themsehes  have  given  all  they  had  and  all  thev 
could  borrow,  and  now  they  are  daily  inditing  pathetic 
communications,  and  sending  them  broadcast,  with  the 
fervent  prayer  that  God  would  move  the  hearts  of  their 
more  fortunate  brothers  and  sisters  in  distant  lands  to 
contribute  largely  in  this  hour  of  China’s  direst  need, 
and  thus  help  them  to  help  those  who  are  looking  to 
them  for  salvation  from  impending  death. 

They  Are  Looking  This  Way 

For  many  years  these  godly  men  and  women  have 
pointed  the  people  to  the  Saviour,  and  countless  thou- 
sands have  accepted  him  and  have  been  baptized  in  the 
Faith.  Indeed,  the  cause  of  Christ  is  making  wondrous 
progress  among  the  dense  population  of  China,  and 
now  that  disaster  has  befallen  them  and  death  is  threat- 
ening them,  what  wonder  that  they  are  looking  for 
help  from  this  country  whence  hail  the  missionaries, 
who  have  told  them  again  and  again  the  beautiful  story 
of  one  Jesus  who  went  about  doing  good,  who  fed  the 
multitudes,  and  whose  followers  in  this  prosperous 
country  are  walking  in  the  footsteps  of  their  Master, 
daily  testing  their  lives  by  the  standard  he  established, 
and  ever  asking  themselves.  What  would  Jesus  do? 

Let  Us  Help  Them  Quickly 

And  shall  they  look  in  vain?  Shall  they  be  disap- 
pointed ? Shall  we  lead  them  to  believe  that  our  religion 
is  mere  profession  ? Shall  we  shut  up  the  bowels  of 
our  compassion  and  tell  them  that  American  money  and 
American  grain  are  for  Americans  only — that  religion  is 
one  thing  and  charity  quite  another?  Or  shall  we  open 
our  hearts,  our  hands,  our  purses  and  our  granaries, 
and  in  the  name  of  our  Master  whom  we  serve,  bid 
them  share  with  us  the  bounties  of  our  Heavenly 
Father’s  goodness? 

Deal  thy  bread  to  the  hungry.  . . . Then  shall  thy  light 

break  forth  as  the  morning  and  thine  health  shall  spring  forth 
speedily:  and  . . . the  glory  of  the.  Lord  shall  be  thy  reward. 
Isaiah  58  : 7,  8. 


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A Little  Girl’s  Appeal  for  China 


B'riends  of  The  Cheistian  Herald  Think  of  the  poor  Chinese 
people.  When  you  read  of  how  they  drown  their  children,  re- 
member it  is  because  they  would  not  see  them  slowly  die  before 
their  eyes.  No,  you  would  not  either— I know  it.  They  have  hearts, 
just  the  same  as  we  have. 

When  you  think  of  the  poor  skeletons — for  that  is  what  they  are 
— you  can  imagine  how  they  look— feeble  and  unable  to  walk. 
When  you  see  the  picture  of  the  boy  in  1906  with  his  bowl  full  of 
rice,  and  in  1907  empty,  you  know  it  Is  hard.  Yes.  very. 

Think  of  the  poor  children.  How  they  suffer ! Their  little 


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CHRISTIAN  REFUGEES  AT  THE  APOSTOLIC  MISSION 

cries  are  full  of  sadness.  And  how  hard  it  must  be  for  the  poor 
mothers  and  fathers.  They  suffer,  too^ut  not  as  much  as  the 
poor  little  ones,  who  are  as  thin  as  a penw  and  yet  as  good  as  can 
be.  We  cannot  understand  how  miserable  they  are.  They  are 
fed  once  every  twenty-four  hours,  unless  they  can  get  something 
for  themselves,  like  sweet  potato  leaves  or  the  bark  of  some  tree. 

Then  think  of  how  we  have  three  meals  a day,  and  a nice  bed  to 
sleep  in  and  a warm  room.  The  poor  people  in  China  have  hardly 
anything  to  eat.  and  only  a wet  mat  to  sleep  on  in  the  cold  nights; 
nothing  under  them  but  the  cold  ground  and  very  little  over  them. 

Oh.  how  thankful  to  God  we  should  be  that  we  do  not  suffer 
like  the  poor  Chinese  people.  So  let  us  thank  God,  let  us  try  to 
help  the  poor  Chinamen.  Mary. 


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Give  Us  Bread  or  We  Perish 


“Give  us  bread,  give  us  bread,  or  we  perish!”  is  the 
pitiful  cry  which  comes  from  far-oif  China  to  Chris- 
tian America.  Mothers  frantically  pressing  the  emaci- 
ated little  forms  of  darling  children  to  their  parched 
breasts,  as  if  by  embrace  to  keep  the  feeble  spark  of 
life  from  becoming  wholly  extinct;  wives  whose  hearts 
are  breaking  as  they  see  the  breadwinner  of  the  family 
growing  weaker  and  weaker  day  after  day,  without 
prospect  of  relief,  and  husbands  whose  looks  of  hope- 
less agony  speak  louder  than  words  of  the  terrible 
dread  and  apprehension  that  fill  their  hearts,  are 
straining  their  eyes  in  the  direction  of  this  country, 
whence  hail  the  missionaries  who  have  told  them  the 
beautiful  story  of  one  Jesus,  who  went  about  doing 
good,  who  fed  the  multitudes,  and  whose  followers 
in  this  blessed  country  are  walking  in  the  footsteps 
of  their  Master. 

To  put  flesh  on  these  dry  bones,  blood  in  these 
parched  veins,  vitality  in  these  enfeebled  bodies,  and 
joy  and  hope  in  these  desolate  hearts,  is  your  mission, 
and  my  mission,  dear  brothers  and  sisters,  and  may 
God  grant  that  with  alacrity  we  avail  ourselves  of  this 
great  opportunity  of  doing  good  in  our  Redeemer’s  name. 
Hasten  quickly  to  their  rescue. 

Hear  their  bitter  cry  for  bread. 

Ye,  who  in  your  homes  have  plenty. 

Ye,  whom  God  has  always  fed. 

According  to  the  most  recent  advices  the  floods 
have  submerged  40,000  square  miles,  impoverishing 
15,000,000  inhabitants — honest,  industrious  people,  who 
have  fallen  upon  evil  times,  and  whom  America  will 
not  desert  in  this  hour  of  their  dire  extremity,  nor 
suffer  them  to  perish  from  off  the  face  of  the  earth. 
Help  will  surely  be  afforded  them,  and  in  such  bounti- 
ful measure  that  the  calamity  that  has  come  upon  them 
shall  not  overwhelm  them. 

The  Daughters  of  the  King 

There  are  in  every  community  godly  women,  sympa- 
thetic and  kind;  consecrated  women,  who  long  to  do 
good,  as  they  have  opportunity,  and  to  aid  the  poor,  the 
suffering  and  the  distressed.  We  look  confidently  to 
them  for  aid  at  this  time.  They  can  work,  they  can 
speak,  they  can  plead,  pray  and  give.  May  God  call 
them  to  this  mission  and  graciously  prosper  the  work 
of  their  hearts  and  their  hands. 

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Chinese  Minister  Thanks  Our  People 

Imperial  Chinese  Legation,  Washington. 

The  Chinese  people  remember  what  The  Christian  Herald 
did  for  our  famine  sufferers  years  ago  and  they  are  deeply  grateful 
for  it.  No  words  can  express  our  appreciation  of  Dr.  Klopsch’s 
unrivalled  philanthropy,  and  through  him  I would  express  my 
gratitude  to  the  American  people  for  their  great  generosity.  The 
people  of  my  country  are  dying  and  undergoing  indescribable  suf- 
fering in  untold  numbers  in  the  famine  districts,  and  it  shows  the 
wonderful  brotherhood  of  mankind,  that  away  over  here  the  great 
American  people  should  raise  money  for  their  relief.  No  words 
can  express  our  gratitude.  Chentung  Liang  Cheng. 


Copyright,  H.  C.WliiteCo, 

BEGGING  CHILDREN.  CONTRAST  WITH  PICTURE  ON  FRONT  COVER 


TEN  CENTS  A DAY  will  save  a small  family. 
Twenty  cents  will  save  a life  for  a week. 

One  Dollar  will  save  a family  of  five  for  a week. 

Five  Dollars  will  save  six  lives  for  one  month. 

Ten  Dollars  may  keep  a family  over  the  pinch. 

One  Hundred  Dollars  will  save  a small  community. 

How  Many  Lives  Will  Y OU  Save  ? 


